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Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2008 Courtney E. Howard |
Driving the Demand for Data Storage Sensors span the battlefields, producing a wealth of mission-critical data that must be kept at once readily available and secure.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2010 Courtney E. Howard |
Network-Centric Data Sharing Fuels Adoption of Solid-State Memory Solid-state storage devices are becoming more prevalent in military and aerospace applications because of the number of advantages over spinning hard drives.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2005 Ben Ames |
Military storage designers call for hard drives Disk drives are still getting denser-slowly-but they easily outstrip solid-state for price and capacity.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2006 Courtney E. Howard |
Storage Trends in the Trenches The latest advancements in portable, rugged data storage are designed to deliver critical data to warfighters on the battlefield quickly, securely, and without fail.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2010 Courtney E. Howard |
By Land, by Sea, by Air: Rugged Computers Are Everywhere Military and aerospace organizations around the world tap novel rugged mobile computers for mission-critical applications.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2010 Courtney E. Howard |
Empowering embedded computing Mainstream, COTS technologies combine with aerospace and defense industry innovations to deliver increased performance in compact electronics designs  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2007 Courtney E. Howard |
Solid-State Memory Solutions Are Meeting Today's Data Demands Data-storage solutions -- once a frequently overlooked part of any workflow -- are gaining significant attention in military and aerospace environments.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2004 |
Hard Drives Rule for Military Storage Military designers continue to favor hard drives for data storage because of their density and cost efficiency, but new technologies are on the way, including holographic optical storage and flash devices.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2008 Courtney E. Howard |
Rugged Electronics Empower Tomorrow's Technology Technology companies enable our military's net-centric vision through smaller, faster, stronger computers.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2007 Courtney E. Howard |
Top Secrets: Securing Sensitive Data Defense industry organizations develop and deploy secure information solutions to protect military and civilian lives.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2009 |
Products ACT/Technico offers Gigabit Ethernet switches... Adimec offers 2-megapixel camera for unmanned vehicle applications... Aitech introduces Core 2 Duo-based single-board computer for use aboard UAVs... etc.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2009 Courtney E. Howard |
Thinking Inside the Box Systems engineers and technology firms partner to equip mil-aero platforms with innovative enclosures, backplanes, and electronics packaging.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2008 Courtney E. Howard |
Computational Complexity Single-board and mezzanine-board computers deliver expanded functionality in a reduced size.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2004 |
Products Telepresence tactile feedback system... Actuators for unmanned-aerial-vehicle applications... Rugged COTS airborne computer with 3U CompactPCI cards... VME single-board embedded computer... etc.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2007 John McHale |
VPX, the Heir to VME, Makes its Debut Embedded-system vendors are releasing their products based on the proposed VITA 46 (VPX) standard, while traditional VME standards such as VME 64 continue to prove profitable. Meanwhile, across the standards aisle, the PICMG MicroTCA standard is creating a buzz in military circles.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2005 |
Rugged computers get flexible to fit any application Computer makers selling to military and aerospace systems integrators and field users understand the best design method involves modularity to -accommodate a broad range of custom and off-the-shelf needs.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2008 |
Products Martek Power offers high-power, multichannel power modules... Aeroflex offers Battery Electronic Unit family of Li-Ion cell balancing products... Elmo offers board-mounted servo drive with 5 kilowatts continuous power... etc.  |
Defense Update Issue 3, 2006 |
Digital Video Recorders Reach the Battlefield Recently several companies have developed military applications for solid-state digital players and Digital Video Recorders (DVR).  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2006 Ben Ames |
Engineers Balance Speed and Heat in a Single Board Processors and switched-fabric networks are moving data at faster speeds then ever before, which is leading designers to come up with innovative approaches to channeling information flow, power management, and keeping boards cool.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2007 Courtney E. Howard |
Rugged Computers Under Fire Technology companies continue to advance ruggedization and computing technologies to serve the needs of today's warfighter in the field.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2009 Courtney E. Howard |
Information is under attack Malicious attacks on information and information systems occur at an alarming rate all over the world.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2009 |
Show Products Product highlights for the avionics and military shows in San Diego, June 1-2, 2009.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2008 Courtney E. Howard |
iWar Technology companies devise innovations to help combat the growing threat of information warfare.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2005 Ben Ames |
POSIX: reveling in its popularity Looking to save money and reuse software, Pentagon planners are turning to POSIX. If all real-time operating systems work with POSIX, then soldiers can swap code from a broken computer to a new one.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2004 |
Is your RTOS safe and secure? Vendors of real-time operating systems find themselves being pulled in two directions at once. Defense contractor customers demand lower costs while, at the same, time more security and safety certification than ever before. Linux is a point of heated discussion.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2004 |
New Products Universal avionics digital interface... VME card for motor drive power control... VME64 bus-to-bus adapters.. Add-on network-management software for the TCP/IP stack... Self-clinching panel fasteners... etc.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2009 John Keller |
Military hard-drive manufacturers balance the benefits of spinning-media and solid-state data storage Traditional military hard drives made from spinning magnetic media were once thought to be too delicate for punishing military systems in the field.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2006 J.R. Wilson |
Military and Commercial Avionics Draw From the Same Technology Well The increasing imperative for the military to be able to adopt and adapt new technologies has led to a dramatic push for new, avionics-specific industry standards for power, form factors, and interfaces that will apply to military as well as commercial aviation.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2009 |
Curtiss-Wright Introduces Rugged Solid-State Drive XMC/PMC Card The rugged solid-state drive card is for systems in space-constrained defense and aerospace applications that require large quantities of rugged data storage in harsh environments subject to shock and vibration.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2006 Ben Ames |
Rugged Computers Power the Digital Battlefield Troops are pushing rugged computers harder than ever, as manufacturers seek tougher display screens, more reliable hard drives, and faster processors. A major challenge for engineers is to keep pace with fast upgrades in COTS technology.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2005 Ben Ames |
Power electronics drive next-generation vehicles From electric-drive ships to hybrid Humvees, military vehicles that rely on electric motors will soon rely on advanced power electronics to handle huge voltages in their drive trains. Designers of military vehicles, in fact, see electric power as the next great frontier.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2005 J.R. Wilson |
The evolution of UAV avionics Success of military unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and development of new platforms for information, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) has led to some significant advances in small-scale avionics systems.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2005 Coble & Dela Garza |
Can optoelectronics go from practical to tactical? Many automakers have already begun to deploy optoelectronics into their automotive systems in sensors, dashboard displays, motion and position sensing. Such technologies may find their way into military and aerospace products.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2004 |
New Products From the Show New products announced at the 2004 Military & Aeropspace Electronics Show: 3U conduction-cooled CompactPCI single-board computer... Multimedia PMC graphics board... IEEE-1394a&b/FireWire VME board... etc.  |
IEEE Spectrum January 2006 Harry Goldstein |
Loser: Too Little, Too Soon With 80-GB hard drives fast becoming the standard for affordable laptop computers, Samsung's plan for pricey flash-based solid-state disks is impractical.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2004 Ben Ames |
Test-and-Measurement Tools Struggle to Keep up with Shrinking Chips Chips and buses are getting smaller and faster every day. For engineers trying to test military electronics, that means trouble. Test-and-measurement equipment is pushed to its limits trying to keep up with the latest, smallest circuits.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2005 John Keller |
Open Systems, Reliability, and Security Are Primary Drivers in Software Development Environments The increasing size, complexity, and proliferation of software code throughout military and aerospace electronic and optoelectronic systems is driving software developers toward industry-standard products, which are often compatible with open-systems software tool interfaces.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2009 |
Rugged FPGA for Aerospace and Military Embedded Systems Introduced by Xilinx The Virtex-5Q family of field-programmable gate arrays is for aerospace and military embedded systems involving secure military communications, electronic warfare, aircraft avionics and vetronics, radar technology, and missiles.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2010 |
Serial FPDP Data Recorder for Sensor Processing Introduced by Curtiss-Wright Curtiss-Wright Controls Electronic Systems is introducing the Vortex SDRxL off-the-shelf, four-channel Serial FPDP (sFPDP) data recorder for sensor processing streaming data applications in demanding environments.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2009 J.R. Wilson |
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Get Ready for Prime Time Government leaders are supportive of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) use in non-military applications such as border control, emergency response, law enforcement, and forest fire surveillance.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2009 |
Phoenix International introduces solid-state VME mass storage module The VS1-250-SSD military VME system delivers high-capacity, high-performance data storage for military, aerospace, and industrial applications requiring rugged, secure, and durable military hard drive mass data storage.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2010 |
Avionics Computers for Navy Combat Jets Come From General Dynamics in $30.6 Million Contract Avionics computer systems designers will provide the U.S. Navy with 118 Type 3 advanced mission computers for carrier-based F/A-18 and E/A-18G jet fighter-bomber and electronic warfare aircraft  |
InternetNews November 5, 2008 Drew Robb |
Intel Sees Gold in Solid-State Storage Solid-state drives have become a big priority at Intel - enough to get Gordon Moore himself involved.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2008 Courtney E. Howard |
Hypervisors and Software Virtualization Pique Interest at Embedded Systems Conference Significant trends and technologies involving embedded hypervisors and software virtualization for military and aerospace applications stood out at the annual Embedded Systems Conference (ESC)  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2009 Courtney E. Howard |
Rugged, Portable Devices Excel at Communication Handheld devices increasingly are being adopted in military and aerospace applications.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2007 |
Growing PC Applications May Help Drive Down the Cost of Solid-State Drives Solid state drives are poised for extraordinary growth in the personal computer market from nearly nothing in 2006 to 24 million units in 2011, reports market researcher In-Stat.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2008 Courtney E. Howard |
LynuxWorks Provides RTOS for Shipboard Self-Defense System Engineers at Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems have built the next-generation combat system on the LynxOS real-time operating system (RTOS)  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2004 Dave Garcia |
COTS Systems Streamline Costs for Military Suppliers An adroit military supplier would do well to focus on the areas that are central to its strategy and then streamline its business by outsourcing the non-value-added processes to trusted partners.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2007 Courtney E. Howard |
Power Trip Sophisticated electronics drive the need for plentiful power on the battlefield.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2010 |
6U VME Computer Boards Based on Freescale QorIQ P4080 Microprocessor Introduced by Curtiss-Wright The computer board provides as many as eight Power Architecture processor cores and data-path acceleration logic, as well as network and peripheral bus interfaces.  |